Michelle McManus
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Co-Director of the Institute for Children’s Futures (ICF), Professor of Safeguarding & Violence Prevention @ManMetUni Tweets are my own
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1 week ago |
theconversation.com | Michelle McManus
The announcement of a national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation raises urgent questions: How did we end up here again? Haven’t there been enough reports? Why weren’t children protected the first time? And will these reforms actually change anything? As someone who has worked for years in safeguarding policy and research into grooming, county lines drug trafficking and child criminal exploitation, I believe this moment could be different.
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1 week ago |
inkl.com | Michelle McManus |Manchester Metropolitan
Mariana Serdynska/ShutterstockThe announcement of a national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation raises urgent questions: How did we end up here again? Haven’t there been enough reports? Why weren’t children protected the first time? And will these reforms actually change anything? As someone who has worked for years in safeguarding policy and research into grooming, county lines drug trafficking and child criminal exploitation, I believe this moment could be different.
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Jan 19, 2024 |
journals.sagepub.com | Laura Boulton |Michelle McManus |Dominique Walker |Tia Simanovic
IntroductionThe relationship between the police and the public has often been a complex one, requiring trust, transparency, and legitimacy. Police are traditionally tasked with ensuring and maintaining public order and safety, preventing crime, and protecting the public (White and Fradella, 2020), while respecting the institutions, laws, and human rights. According to Mason et al. (2014), the invisible pendulum continuously sways between benevolent-and enforcement-related behaviour of the police.
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RT @MMU_Research: The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’ Michelle McManus (@McManus_M_), Professor of Sa…
So little has changed… For too long, victims of grooming gangs were dismissed, disbelieved, or blamed. In my latest article for @ConversationUK, I explore how repeated system failures led us here and what must change now. https://t.co/14ExOrO5Uw @ManMetUni @mcrmetropolis
"I'm raging, actually, on behalf of the victims." Baroness Louise Casey, author of the Government's audit on grooming gangs, on her anger that so little has changed since her 2015 Rotherham report. #Newsnight https://t.co/xVG6pbvACb
After such an amazing couple days with our @ICF_Mcr senior leadership team, it’s great to see global coverage of @ICF_Mcr. See below ⬇️. Lots of exciting things to come over the next year! Watch this space. @ManMetUni @mcrmetropolis
UNAI member institution @ManMetUni welcomed over 100 delegates to celebrate the launch of its new Institute for Children’s Futures in honor of #ChildrensDay last November. Learn more about this new initiative and its goals in this week's UNAI article: https://t.co/BKsCo2XVrC https://t.co/mXLEhmziUk
